[He's trying to express this in smaller pieces, not to baby him, but to make sure he's okay each step forward. He doesn't want to have a horrible repeat of yesterday.

Though it's hard to admit it, even if he's sure that Cain had been aware the only person he'd been seeing other than him for a while was Norton, he'd only very recently allowed himself to branch out, opportunities arising that he couldn't help but fall into.]

I don't know how well you know Norton, but I'm bracing myself for rejection if I'm being completely honest.

When we first started he made it very clear it was strictly casual, that he was difficult, and I even tried taking a break from it, almost two months we were just friends, I wasn't seeing anyone and I think that only made it worse, how much I liked him.

And then shortly after I started sleeping with him again you arrived, and we were trying to fix our own mess... that took precedent because you're important to me, but it was kind of a disaster all around.

Fitz thought it was funny, but I've been stuck for months trying to figure out how it got so tangled in the first place.